Mansour Abbas sets election goal: Ra'am will be the decisive kingmaker
Ra'am chairman Mansour Abbas declares that his party aims to be at the center of decision-making following the elections: "No one will dictate our role in politics."
Assessment
Abbas is staking a claim to outsized influence by positioning Ra'am as the hinge between blocs after the vote. His insistence that no one dictates the party's role signals an intention to bargain hard rather than default to a traditional alliance. The key question is whether other factions will accept that autonomy.